Indians of North America -- Iowa; Spirit Lake Massacre, Iowa, 1857
Iowa, attitude of Indians toward, 3;
extinguishment of Indian title to soil of, 5-8;
lack of frontier protection in, 17-25;
winter of 1856-1857 in, 42, 43;
reference to, 43, 67, 256, 278;
Inkpaduta’s band in, 68, 69;
return of Abbie Gardner to, 244;
memorial tributes of, to persons involved in massacre, 260-268;
amount received by, for Spirit Lake Relief Expedition, 261-263;
appropriation by legislature of, 262;
Indian warfare in, 284
Iowa City, 41
Iowa Indians, removal of, from Iowa, 6;
murder of, by Sioux, 290
Iowa River, 281
Irish Colony, 38, 61, 180, 193, 196, 198, 201, 206, 207, 210, 309;
march of relief expedition to, 180;
relief expedition at, 181;
refugees sent to, 189;
reaching of, by burial party, 203, 204
Ishtahabah, 284
Jackson, Frank D., 265
Jackson, Thomas E., sobriquet of, 298
Jackson (Minnesota), 37, 266;
settlement at, 38
Jacques River (see James River)
Jagmani, 279
James River, 63, 215, 234, 235, 238;
rendezvous of Indians on, 65
Jasper County, 159, 160
John Other Day, ransom of Abbie Gardner by, 232-239;
expedition guided by, 257;
services of, at time of massacre of 1862, 312
Johns, John, 35
Johnson, Albert S., 167, 184
Johnson, John C., 165, 192, 194, 200, 214, 266, 307, 309;
enlistment of, 165, 166;
burial detail commanded by, 192;
division in party under, 196, 197;
sufferings of party under command of, 199-205;
efforts to find, 204;
death of, by freezing, 204, 205
Johnston, Albert Sidney, 246
Joshpaduta, story concerning, 285, 286
Kane County (Illinois), 38
Kanesville, 40
Kansas, 82
Kasominee, 284
Kellogg, Elias D., 165, 192, 202, 203
Kirchner, Christian, 93
Kirchner, J. A., 39, 40
Kirchner, Jacob, 39, 40, 88;
ill-treatment of family of, by Indians, 89
Koons, William N., 166
Kossuth County, alarm in, 22;
Indian depredations in, 282
Knoxville, 194
Lac D’Esprit, 44
Lac qui Parle, 229
La Framboise, Joseph, 130, 154, 155, 215
Lake Benton, 254
Lake Herman, 233
Lake Madison, 224, 233, 234, 236
Lake M’da Chan-Pta-Ya Tonka, 224
Lake Okoboji, attitude of Indians toward, 1;
settlement at, 39;
reference to, 41, 88, 137, 142;
early visitors at, 44;
early accounts of, 44, 45;
description of, 46, 47;
arrival of Gardner at, 47, 50;
settlement on shores of, 50-56;
first day of massacre at, 94-107;
second day of massacre at, 108-112;
visit of Howe to, 159, 160;
monument at, 266-268
Lake with a Grove of Big Trees, 224
Lakeville Township, 46
Land, cession of, by Indians, 4-8;
allotment of, to Indians, 9, 10
Land office, 38
Larrabee, William, 264
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